Flame pottery

...Since around 1935, local Kondo Kanjiro and his son Tosaburo have been collecting artifacts, including stone tools such as chipped and ground stone axes, stone arrowheads, stone spoons, stone spears, stone plates, concave stones, stone clubs, and beads, as well as pottery, clay figurines, triangular clay slabs, triangular clay products, and pulley-shaped clay earrings. It is particularly famous as the site where the so-called flame pottery, a unique style of pottery from the middle Jomon period, with four large protrusions called cockscomb crowns on the rim and ridge patterns on the surface, was first discovered. In 1972, Nakamura Kosaburo of Nagaoka City Science Museum conducted a survey to confirm the scope of the ruins, and discovered more than 200 stone hearths through drilling surveys and other methods, revealing that it was the remains of a large settlement with many pit dwellings. ...

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…1935年頃から地元の近藤勘治郎･篤三郎父子によって遺物が収集され，打製･磨製石斧，石鏃，石匙，石槍，石皿，凹石（くぼみいし），石棒，玉類などの石器および土器，土偶，三角形土版，三角壔土製品，土製滑車形耳飾など，遺物が多数知られている。とくに縄文中期中葉の土器のうち，口縁部に鶏頭冠とよばれる四つの大型突起をもち，器面を隆線文様で飾る独特な様式のいわゆる火焰土器がはじめて発見された地としても有名である。72年長岡市立科学博物館の中村孝三郎が遺跡範囲等の確認調査を実施し，ボーリング探査などによって200基以上の石組炉を発見，多数の竪穴住居跡をもつ大規模な集落跡であることを明らかにした。…

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